I am just about seven eights of the way through with today's laundry (four loads have been washed and three have been dried, folded, and put away). All was well until I decided to watch what I thought was a comedy on OnDemand. It was not a comedy and now I've gotten upset all over again.
"Hope Springs" stars Meryl Streep as Kay and Tommy Lee Jones as Arnold, a couple who have been married for 32 years and are now in a marriage that has gone south. They live in the same house, have separate bedrooms, and don't communicate at all. Kay wants to put her marriage back on track and reads a book by a marriage counselor played by Steve Carrel. The next thing, she and her husband are flying to Maine to do a week of very expensive intensive therapy with this counselor.
Kay and Arnold try the things he suggests but it is not working. At the end of the week, Arnold still can't have normal relations with the Kay -- nothing works because he finds her unattractive. They go home essentially feeling that their marriage is over. Kay even tells the women she is working with that she will take care of the woman's cat and stay over her house while the woman is away on her own vacation starting the next day.
Kay goes home, packs, and goes to bed in her separate bedroom very sad with the knowledge that her marriage is over. Arnold is very sad in his own room. Then voila - he knocks on her door, they have great makeup sex, and all is well with the world. In the last scene of the movie, Steve Carrel is officiating at their vow renewal. That's when I lost it. Why does it always work out in the movies but not in my life. Why did he leave me? Why won't he come back and give me the chance I deserve to make things right? Why?
At least I've stopped crying in order to be able to write this. Maybe I should get into the shower now before I start crying again.
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